David F Brand
@davidfbrand.bsky.social
I’m a reporter covering housing for @wnyc.org and @gothamist.com | In a previous career, I was a licensed social worker
90.7 FM in NYC
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
90.7 FM in NYC
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mamdani names his transition team housing committee
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Mamdani names his transition team housing committee
The Cuomo campaign posted and then quickly deleted an “AI parody” video of de Blasio and Mamdani as Dr. Evil and Mini-me made in collaboration with the meme account “ @ FatCamp” on Instagram
This is the only screenshot I have before it disappeared
This is the only screenshot I have before it disappeared
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Cuomo campaign posted and then quickly deleted an “AI parody” video of de Blasio and Mamdani as Dr. Evil and Mini-me made in collaboration with the meme account “ @ FatCamp” on Instagram
This is the only screenshot I have before it disappeared
This is the only screenshot I have before it disappeared
Coffee prices have gotten so out of control that it is now cheaper to get a bag of coffee as part of a @wnyc.org membership than it is to buy a $20 can of Folgers at the grocery store
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October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Coffee prices have gotten so out of control that it is now cheaper to get a bag of coffee as part of a @wnyc.org membership than it is to buy a $20 can of Folgers at the grocery store
pledge.wnyc.org/support/wnyc...
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I went into the boiler room of a neighboring building on the Mitchel Houses campus yesterday to check out the equipment
Here’s what the boiler looked like
Here’s what the boiler looked like
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I went into the boiler room of a neighboring building on the Mitchel Houses campus yesterday to check out the equipment
Here’s what the boiler looked like
Here’s what the boiler looked like
The HUD website right now
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The HUD website right now
This morning, Councilmember Kristy Marmorato, who reps the site, told me they are proposing a new location for the supportive housing site…. But she says she can’t disclose it
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This morning, Councilmember Kristy Marmorato, who reps the site, told me they are proposing a new location for the supportive housing site…. But she says she can’t disclose it
New statement from Mayor Eric Adams following NYT reporting about a potential ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia in exchange for him dropping out of the mayoral race:
“While I will always listen if called to serve our country, no formal offers have been made.
I am still running for reelection”
“While I will always listen if called to serve our country, no formal offers have been made.
I am still running for reelection”
September 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New statement from Mayor Eric Adams following NYT reporting about a potential ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia in exchange for him dropping out of the mayoral race:
“While I will always listen if called to serve our country, no formal offers have been made.
I am still running for reelection”
“While I will always listen if called to serve our country, no formal offers have been made.
I am still running for reelection”
“It is worse for communities. It is worse for public health. It is worse for New York City writ large.”
Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid
For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com
Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid
For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“It is worse for communities. It is worse for public health. It is worse for New York City writ large.”
Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid
For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com
Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid
For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com
NYC Rent Guidelines Board just voted to raise rents by
• 3% on 1-year leases
• 4.5% on 2-year leases
The new increases for rent-stabilized apartments take effect on leases signed on or after Oct. 1
• 3% on 1-year leases
• 4.5% on 2-year leases
The new increases for rent-stabilized apartments take effect on leases signed on or after Oct. 1
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
NYC Rent Guidelines Board just voted to raise rents by
• 3% on 1-year leases
• 4.5% on 2-year leases
The new increases for rent-stabilized apartments take effect on leases signed on or after Oct. 1
• 3% on 1-year leases
• 4.5% on 2-year leases
The new increases for rent-stabilized apartments take effect on leases signed on or after Oct. 1
In new Emerson poll on NYC’s mayoral race, “housing affordability” was the most frequently cited “most important issue facing New York City”
May 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In new Emerson poll on NYC’s mayoral race, “housing affordability” was the most frequently cited “most important issue facing New York City”
Debrina Kawam graduated in 1985 from Passaic Valley HS in NJ, where she went by Deb and aspired to be an airline stewardess
Classmates voted her “Most Punk”
She later worked at Merck
Today, police ID’d her as the woman burned to death in NYC
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Classmates voted her “Most Punk”
She later worked at Merck
Today, police ID’d her as the woman burned to death in NYC
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/police-...
January 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Debrina Kawam graduated in 1985 from Passaic Valley HS in NJ, where she went by Deb and aspired to be an airline stewardess
Classmates voted her “Most Punk”
She later worked at Merck
Today, police ID’d her as the woman burned to death in NYC
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/police-...
Classmates voted her “Most Punk”
She later worked at Merck
Today, police ID’d her as the woman burned to death in NYC
@gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/police-...
Wild surveillance footage from a Bronx bodega shows the moment an apartment building collapsed last year
Video shared by NYC’s Dept of Buildings
Video shared by NYC’s Dept of Buildings
November 27, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Wild surveillance footage from a Bronx bodega shows the moment an apartment building collapsed last year
Video shared by NYC’s Dept of Buildings
Video shared by NYC’s Dept of Buildings